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SalaryThe World at Abt   
Solving the world’s most pressing issues and improving the quality of life for people worldwide is what we do every day at Abt. Creating a more equitable world is no small task, but we are driven by big challenges.  
We are a team of 4,000+ people in over 50 countries working in unison and focused on the bigger picture. Only by sharing our commitment and energy do we affect change and push the boundaries of what’s possible. We welcome diverse ideas, backgrounds, and viewpoints – joining Abt means access to exceptional thinkers at the top of their game.  
To thrive at Abt is to embrace flexibility and collaboration. Our open culture allows you to balance your work and personal life as needed to optimize personal well-being. Creating a more equitable world starts from within – we look after people around the world, and we’ll do the same for you.  
Ready to embrace rewarding and meaningful work? Now’s your chance. 
Opportunity
Abt seeks an Associate in our Technical Assistance & Implementation Capability to work on Youth Homeless and Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) Technical Assistance (TA) projects funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and federal partners. Through these projects, our team supports communities nationwide in developing and implementing equitable, effective, and human-centered homelessness response systems and programs. This position will require travel up to 25%.
Core Responsibilities
Specific job responsibilities include:
- Leading large direct TA engagements within specific communities. These engagements are designed to help YHDP award recipients, other homeless service providers, local partners, and public officials improve their local crisis and housing responses to homelessness, address disparities, and achieve significant reductions in homelessness. Areas of direct TA may include:
- Cross-system and cross-community partner engagement and collaboration
- Technical support on eligible costs, activities, and participants for YHDP-funded projects
- Grant management and implementation, including grant spending strategies
- Coordinated entry policy, design, and implementation
- Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and other data collection design and analysis, including disaggregation by race, ethnicity, gender, and other characteristics
- System modeling and coordinated investment planning
- Local request for proposal processes to allocate available funding (design, implementation, scoring, and decision-making)
- Community-wide planning process design and facilitation and written plan development
- Continuous quality improvement design and implementation
- Uplifting core principles in practice, including but not limited to: authentic partnerships, decision-making, and power-sharing with people who have experienced homelessness, intersectional equity, trauma-informed practices, Housing First, harm reduction, targeted universalism, and data-informed decision-making.
- Assessing needs, developing and implementing capacity-building strategies, and evaluating impact, while managing budgets, project deliverables, relations with the TA recipient, and relations with HUD and other funders.
- Developing tools and guidance to be applied within specific engagements and shared nationally to support local efforts to address challenges related to ending homelessness, addressing disparities, and developing long-term housing and community development solutions.
- Facilitating knowledge-sharing to promote cross-learning within Abt and externally (e.g., communities, HUD and other clients, and with our colleagues at other firms) to ensure all of those working to end homelessness can cultivate and apply equitable and effective strategies.
What We Value:
Candidates must have experience leading or supporting work in one or more of the following areas:
- Supporting system-level efforts to prevent and end Youth Homelessness
- Community-level intersectional equity, diversity, and inclusion work, to identify disparities and support planning processes focused on advancing equity, ideally in the context of efforts to end Youth Homelessness
- Leading, or supporting the development and sustainability of a youth action board (YAB)
- Facilitating processes to analyze and optimize local housing systems (i.e., system modeling), ideally leveraging Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and other data
- Designing and implementing youth-dedicated programs and intervention approaches that center and are driven to meet young people’s needs and experiences
- Other Technical Assistance work related to housing; conducting research / evaluation related to homelessness, housing, community development, and equitable systems
- BA/BS + 11 years of relevant experience, MA/MS + 7 years of experience, PhD + 4 years of relevant experience, or no degree and 15 years of relevant experience.
What We Offer
We foster an environment where you can Thrive Your Way. Our innovative total rewards programs are designed to help balance your work and personal life. The approach toward your wellbeing centers around comprehensive benefits, flexible schedules, and professional development.
Abt Global Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce. Abt provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits. Local candidates strongly encouraged to apply.
This position offers an anticipated annual base salary range of approximately $91,000 – 146,000 and may vary by ten percent depending on candidate geographic location. Salary offers are made based on internal equity and market analysis.
Disclaimer: Abt will never ask candidates for money in exchange for an offer of employment.
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